What can be more discreditable than for a man who has committed treason against the people by acts of violence, after he has been condemned by a legal decision, to be able to return to that very course of violence, on account of which he has been condemned? M. Tullius Cicero. The Philippics. Speech 1. Section 21.
Image: Atuatuci sold at auction by Belgian artist Rémy Coghe (also spelled Cogghe), 1880, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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